A family was left devastated after a misunderstanding led to a loving dad being buried without a service.

Rozeena Khan, 43, is angry after her father, Sohrab Ali Khan, 75, was buried without a ceremony at Acklam Cemetery.

But Muslim leaders have said that Mr Khan did receive a funeral service in a Teesside mosque and that any upset is due to a misunderstanding of their traditions.

The father-of-four died of cancer on February 7 and requested a Muslim funeral.

His daughter went to the Jamia Mosque on Waterloo Road, Middlesbrough, to make arrangements.

She said it was agreed she would take her father to the mosque the following day for a service but when the mourners arrived they were shocked to find another funeral service being held at the same time.

Eventually, her father's coffin was taken inside and a funeral service held.

But Ms Khan claims she asked a Muslim priest to attend the burial the next day, only to be left horrified when nobody turned up.

The chairman of the mosque, Mohammed Akhtar, said: "We held the funeral in the mosque at the same time as the other funeral - that is not unusual. The funeral director brought the body and we took it in and bathed the body, I even paid out of my own pocket for the shroud, the towels, the soap. The priest has done his part in the mosque and it is not necessary for him to go to the cemetery."

Ms Kahn is still angry a Muslim priest did not attend the burial of her father at Acklam Cemetery on Wednesday last week.

She said: "There was nobody there to lay him to rest and send him away peacefully."

Mosque leaders said that they tried to accommodate the Khan family's wishes but said a Muslim funeral director would have helped to explain Muslim tradition to them.

Haji Jaber, Jamia Mosque secretary, said: "I understand how that poor lady feels. But if she had asked then we would have been able to tell her more. We usually advise someone to have a Muslim funeral director because they can advise the family. The family hired a funeral director that normally deals with Christian funerals."